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Veronica Moser-Sullivan was a "bright" and "beautiful" little girl who was learning to swim and excited about upcoming lessons she had on Tuesday, according to her great aunt.

Instead, Veronica's life was tragically cut short by a crazed gunman who shattered the quiet of this Denver suburb early Friday morning.

Moser-Sullivan, 6, is the youngest of 12 killed in the movie massacre.

Her mother, Ashley Moser, 25, is among the 58 wounded and was still in critical condition Sunday morning, a bullet reportedly lodged in her neck and a gunshot wound to her abdomen.

Moser has been drifting in and out of consciousness and has reportedly called out several times for her daughter, not knowing she was dead.

"Nobody can tell her about it. She is in critical condition, but all she's asking about is her daughter," Annie Dalton, Moser's aunt, told a local Denver television station late Saturday.

Wiping away tears, Dalton told reporters at the shooting scene earlier the family has been living through a "nightmare" ever since they received the news Moser and her daughter had been shot.

She described young Veronica as a "vibrant" and "excitable" girl.

"She loved to dress up and read, and was doing well at school. She was beautiful and innocent," Dalton said. "She was excited about life as she should be. She's a six-year-old girl."

The local coroner's office released the names of the 12 deceased victims Saturday afternoon.

The oldest, Gordon Cowden, 51, was attending the movie with his two teenage children who survived. Eight of the deceased are men and three are women.

All died of gunshot wounds.

Suspect James Holmes, 24, was reportedly being held in solitary confinement at a local jail before his first court appearance Monday morning.

District Attorney Carol Chambers was to finalize the list of charges Holmes will face this week, and also begin to decide whether she'll seek the death penalty for the former University of Colorado neuroscience PhD candidate who dropped out of the program last month.